A DUTCH BASSE-TAILLE ENAMELLED GOLD WEDDING FORK AND KNIFE

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Los 144 | A DUTCH BASSE-TAILLE ENAMELLED GOLD WEDDING FORK AND KNIFE
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A DUTCH BASSE-TAILLE ENAMELLED GOLD WEDDING FORK AND KNIFE

PROBABLY AMSTERDAM, CIRCA 1608

Comprising a knife and a two-pronged fork, each with tapering handle with trefoil shape terminal, enameled in bright translucent colors with exotic birds and fruiting scrolls and with a lady's coat-of-arms and a gentleman's coat-of-arms beneath a knight helm, the iron blade and prongs etched and gilded with foliate branch, enameled on the side of both with the name ANNA ROELOFFS, apparently unmarked, with later French import mark in use between 1838 and 1864

7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.) long, the knife; 7 5/8 in. (19.2 cm.) long, the fork

2 oz. 15 dwt. (87 gr.) gross weight





Provenance

Jacob Jacobsz Bicker (1581 - 1626) and his wife Anna Roelofs de Vrij (c.1589 - 1626).

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in Entresol, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), in Fumoir sur la cour, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 2506).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria (no. 1170), and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 28 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1371/87 and 1371/88).

Returned to France on 11 July 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905, (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Entresol: 'Une fourchette émaillée XVIe siècle, estimée cinq cent francs' and 'Petit couteau émaillé XVIe siècle, estimé cinq cent francs').
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